OPEC deal to cut production fails to offset even greater plunge in demand for fuel Oil prices plunged on Monday as traders got caught in a desperate race to offload contracts for just about any price they could get. The price of a contract to deliver West Texas Intermediate crude oil […]
Bank expects economic activity to slow by as much as 30% from end of 2019 After cutting it three times in barely a month, the Bank of Canada kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 0.25 per cent on Wednesday, despite an economic outlook that’s looking more and more like one […]
Physical distancing and isolation measures may force family court system to change for the better With courts closed across the country, separated and divorced couples are facing the prospect of not having access to a judge for what could be months. The courts have made exceptions for urgent cases, but these […]
Without support from the richest economies, some of the world’s poorest could face catastrophe, experts warn Even as millions of Canadians look to Ottawa for support through the COVID-19 lockdown, there are growing concerns that chaos in the world’s most indebted regions will delay a global economic recovery. Reports of a […]
An extraordinary proportion of players named to this year’s team attended pricey private schools Of the 37 North American players named to this year’s NHL All-Star game or filling in as replacements, 15 — or 40 per cent — attended private school. It’s a statistic that reinforces the notion that hockey, particularly at its very […]
That being the case, it could be said that genetically edited foods will probably appear without undergoing a risk assessment by Canadian regulators. Importantly, in the greenhouse at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, New York, plant geneticist Zach Lippman is growing cherry tomatoes. They do not resemble those […]
What is news, economic power is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure projects worldwide. In this way, it is important to remember that in 2013 when the United States and many other countries were still recovering from the Great Recession, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced perhaps the most transparent and […]
According to observers, Andrew Scheer’s messages about abortion cost votes on both sides of the debate. In fact, it has been indicated that Scheer is indeed pro-abortionist. Even so, people have also incorrectly inferred that because Scheer does not personally support abortion, he would take away women’s rights. What is […]
Regina Denney’s 17-year-old son Brian called her in a panic; he couldn’t stop throwing up. It was April 7, 2018 and the Indianapolis teen asked her to take him to the emergency room — but doctors there couldn’t figure out what was wrong. He was severely dehydrated and constantly vomiting. “As we’re […]
Richard Fadden said Ottawa needs to acknowledge the United States is withdrawing from global leadership Canada needs to be “clear-eyed” about the threat posed by Russia and China — and the power vacuum at the global level left by the United States’ growing isolationism — a former national security adviser to prime ministers told […]